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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1974-01-03

Ohio Jewish Chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1974-01-03, page 01

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VOL. 52 NO. 1
JANUARY 3, 1974 - TEVETH 9
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WASHINGTON (WNS) — The House of Represen¬ tatives has adopted by a 216-149 vote the House-Senate conference bill on- foreign^ aid which includes $2.2 billion to Israel and approximately $400 million more in grants and credits to Israel for other forms of assistance including the resettlement of Soviet Jews. Hie Senate is expected to also act soon on the bill. Arab states will also benefit by the bill with Saudi Arabia - receiving $20.2 million for military purposes, Jordan $120 million and Lebanon $5 million. {
WASHINGTON (WNS) — Sen. Henry M. Jackson, (O. Wash.) has voiced strong opposition to the presence of Soviet or American troops in the Middle East because it would constitute "a formula that. carries with it the very great danger of dragging the super-powers into a military confrontation. "Jackson also said he was opposed to U.S. military guarantees to Israel that would convert it into "an American dependency" and instead urged the U.S. to give Israelis the "tools they need to provide for the1- own defense" and "defensible borders." Jackson's speech was read at an American Jewish Committee dinner honoring AFL-CIO president George Meany for his long-standing support of Israel. The Senator was detained in Washington because of the vote on the $2.2 billion aid to Israel bill and could not go to New York to deliver the speech.
JERUSALEM, Dec, 25 (JTA) — An effort at raising the morale of the armed forces and bringing some comforts to the troops stationed on the Golan Heights and the Sinai has run into trouble on moral grounds. The President's wife, Mrs. Nina Katzir had arranged for 3000 copies of the current Playboy issue to be flown in from the U.S. to the soldiers. She was actively aided in this by U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Keating. When the idea was made public, both became the targets of angry protests from religious groups.
Deputy Education Minister Zevulun Hammer (National Religious Party) protested to the army saying the pin-ups would have a pernicious effect on morale. And the "Union of Immigrant Rabbis from Western Countries" cabled both Mrs. Katzir and the Ambassador protesting the idea. The Union wrote to Keating, "Israel and Jews everywhere are grateful to the people and the government of the U.S. for the political, military and moral support. . .but we would consider it a very poor judgement if at the same time our troops would be provided with 'literature' which is objectionable by any standard of morality — Jewish, Christian or otherwise."
Israeli Envoy Charges Arabs Pressured Africans To Break Relations With Israel
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by BILL COHEN Chronicle Special Reporter
Special Israeli Am¬ bassador Issachar Ben- Yacov told Columbus Jews December 23 that Arab nations pressured African countries to break relations with Israel, using both bribery and threats of assassination against African leaders.
Only four African coun¬ tries still maintain diplomatic relations with Israel. Ben-Yacov himself was the Israeli ambassador to Nigeria until that country
broke relations Oct. 25.
Ben-Yacov would not disclose the source for his information either to The •Chronicle or to the more than one hundred persons attending the service at the Jewish Center, in memory of
the Israeli soldiers who died in the Yom Kippur war and the athletes killed during the Munich Olympics in 1972.
"Most African nations who have broken relations with Israel — perhaps with the exception of Uganda — have
done so against their better belief and conviction," he said.
Ben-Yacov explained the break in relations is especially surprising because of the amount of
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 13)
Geneva Is A Symbol Of Cooperation
Editor* Not*: BecauseTlf^he awkward deadlines that a wtekly publication like tti* Chronlcl* must meet, w» hav* found It very difficult to bring you up- to-dat* n*w> coverage olWha Geneva P«ac* Conference. Dally newspapers and the TV and radio media ar* covering the newt from Geneva dally. We will try to provide Interesting
Local Leader Elected To JDC Board Of Directors In N.Y.
One of Columbus' Jewish leaders, George M. Levine, was elected to the Board of Directors ' of the Joint: Distribution Committee, it was announced by Edward Ginsberg, - JDC Chairman. The election took place at the 59th Annual Meeting on Thursday, December 6,1973, at the New York Hilton Hotel.
Another local communal leader whose term did not expire and who is therefore still serving on the Board of Directors is Herbert H. Schiff.
Edward Ginsberg of Cleveland was re-elected Chairman of the JDC for a second term. Jack D. Weiler of New York, was re-elected
background Information, when available, such as news analysis, commentary etc. The following It an interesting article on the history of Geneva as a site for ma|or peace conferences.
by Edwin Eytan
JTA European
Bureau Chief
GENEVA (JTA) — Geneva, tne site of the Arab- , Israeli peace conference, is not only a geographic location but also the symbol of "a spirit" and a certain old-fashioned form- of in¬ ternational cooperation. It has also marked a number of resounding international
failures such as the ill-fated League of Nations, the In¬ dochina .peace conference and the summit meetings. It first entered modern history in Nov. 1917 when President Woodrow Wilson told Swiss statesman William Rappard that the world should set up an *=Fii%ernational organization, the League of Nations, and locate it in Geneva "to try and imitate the concept of mutual friendship and cooperation shown by the Swiss, French, Germans and Italians who together^ built a state."
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 7)
Schottensteins To Participate In Israel Bond Conference 7 Convened By Prime Minister
GEORGE M. LEVINE
Chairman of the JDC National Council and Judge Nochem S. Winnet of Philadelphia, was re-elected
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 131
ISRAEL BACKGROUND REPORT
Israel And The American Public
by J. Maynard Kaplan
Editors note: Mr. Kaplan, chairman of the Community Relations Com¬ mittee of the Columbus Jewish Federation, delivered the following analysis of the problems of Israel today, at the community Memorial - Service at the Jewish Center on Dec. Mi
' Consider Yom Kippur
.1973. The Israelis, unwary and unprepared for the Arab attack, are at worship in the synagogues on this holiest of days. The Arabs, armed to the teeth by the Russians, with special equipment for this special type of assault, and with replacement
.material already arriving by sea, a journey of 2 to 3 weeks, the Russians already having discreetly withdrawn their civilians, the Arabs now launch an attack
. simultaneously on two frontiers, hundreds of miles apart. This used to be known
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as blatant, premeditated aggression. But some newspapers in this country, among them the Christian Science Monitor and the Minneapolis Tribune, are saying that this was not aggression.
Consider the cease-fire in 1967. The last shot has hardly echoed away when Israel is inviting the Arabs to sit down at the table and talk peace. For six years, the Israelis invite and wait. And the only Arab response is No Peace, No Negotiations, No Recognition. This used to be known as intransigency. But there are many newspapers here which said it was the Israelis who were in¬ transigent.
Now, let's call a spade, a spade. When we celebrate
oil lasted eight days, in the light of what we know today, that was a very minor miracle.
Because, under the in¬ fluence of today's oil sup¬ plies, governments tremble, leaders become lackeys, lies become truths and facts, become fictions.
It is because of the dangers inherent in this sickness, that the im¬ plications of what we have heard here tonight are of grave concern, slot only to Israel, but also w all of us here in this country.
Particularly are we ap¬ prehensive because Israel relies heavily on public opinion here and it is ap¬ parent that there, are -many in this country who/because they" are weary of war,
the 2100 year old miracle of- Watergate and Wall St., the Temple when one day's, have lost sight of the facts
and are falling prey to the Big Lie and the propaganda.
For example, there is great danger that there are millions of Americans who don't want to face up to the truth, who would be willing to settle for peace at any price and who are willing to allow themselves to be taken in by a phony detente with the Russians, perhaps bringing ultimate disaster to the United States.
For history will record that that is what the Middle East is all about. For years, Israel has been\standing'in for the United States in an undeclared war with the Soviet Union.
Nothing has changed in the Soviet design of things: to penetrate the Middle East, the Suez, dominate the Persian Gulf and the Indian
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 15)
Harold and Regine Schottenstein will leave for Israel on Saturday evening, January 26 to take part in an extraordinary International Israel Bond Conference convened by Prime Minister Golda Meir and Finance Minister Pinchas Sapir.
The Schottenstein's will join more than 500 delegates /from the United States,' CanadaL Western Europe, and other parts of the free world to study Israel's critical economic needs in the wake of the Yom Kippur
War of 1973. They are also expected to inaugurate an unprecedented worldwide effort to help the people of Israel to restore their war- dislocated economy and to go forward with a large scale development program as the, foundation for a sound economic future, according to Sam Rothberg, General Chairman-of the'Israel Bond Organization.
Mr. Schottenstein is a former Columbus Israel Bond Chairman and has
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(CONTINUED ON PAGE 4)
Labor Party Running Scared As Israeli Election Approaches
by Yitzhak ShargU JTA Tel Aviv Correspondent
TEL AVIV (JTA) - With election day approaching, Israel's ruling Labor Party is running scared, despite the latest public opinion poll predicting an overwhelming victory for the Labor lists. Labor is aiming its big guns at the Likud non-Labor alignment which it is trying to brand as the party of war. Premier Golda Meir's Labor Alignment is presenting itself to the voters as the
party of peace, an image enhanced by the successful opening of the first Arab- Israeli peace talks in 25 years at Geneva two weeks ago. Labor, on the eve of elections, has unveiled a new ' pla tform which, while standing firm on the need for defensible borders, is more doveish than.the previous platform on the question of territorial compromise. It is also promising new and younger faces in the next government and Knesset. The poll, conducted by the
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 11)
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VOL. 52 NO. 1
JANUARY 3, 1974 - TEVETH 9
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WASHINGTON (WNS) — The House of Represen¬ tatives has adopted by a 216-149 vote the House-Senate conference bill on- foreign^ aid which includes $2.2 billion to Israel and approximately $400 million more in grants and credits to Israel for other forms of assistance including the resettlement of Soviet Jews. Hie Senate is expected to also act soon on the bill. Arab states will also benefit by the bill with Saudi Arabia - receiving $20.2 million for military purposes, Jordan $120 million and Lebanon $5 million. {
WASHINGTON (WNS) — Sen. Henry M. Jackson, (O. Wash.) has voiced strong opposition to the presence of Soviet or American troops in the Middle East because it would constitute "a formula that. carries with it the very great danger of dragging the super-powers into a military confrontation. "Jackson also said he was opposed to U.S. military guarantees to Israel that would convert it into "an American dependency" and instead urged the U.S. to give Israelis the "tools they need to provide for the1- own defense" and "defensible borders." Jackson's speech was read at an American Jewish Committee dinner honoring AFL-CIO president George Meany for his long-standing support of Israel. The Senator was detained in Washington because of the vote on the $2.2 billion aid to Israel bill and could not go to New York to deliver the speech.
JERUSALEM, Dec, 25 (JTA) — An effort at raising the morale of the armed forces and bringing some comforts to the troops stationed on the Golan Heights and the Sinai has run into trouble on moral grounds. The President's wife, Mrs. Nina Katzir had arranged for 3000 copies of the current Playboy issue to be flown in from the U.S. to the soldiers. She was actively aided in this by U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Keating. When the idea was made public, both became the targets of angry protests from religious groups.
Deputy Education Minister Zevulun Hammer (National Religious Party) protested to the army saying the pin-ups would have a pernicious effect on morale. And the "Union of Immigrant Rabbis from Western Countries" cabled both Mrs. Katzir and the Ambassador protesting the idea. The Union wrote to Keating, "Israel and Jews everywhere are grateful to the people and the government of the U.S. for the political, military and moral support. . .but we would consider it a very poor judgement if at the same time our troops would be provided with 'literature' which is objectionable by any standard of morality — Jewish, Christian or otherwise."
Israeli Envoy Charges Arabs Pressured Africans To Break Relations With Israel
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by BILL COHEN Chronicle Special Reporter
Special Israeli Am¬ bassador Issachar Ben- Yacov told Columbus Jews December 23 that Arab nations pressured African countries to break relations with Israel, using both bribery and threats of assassination against African leaders.
Only four African coun¬ tries still maintain diplomatic relations with Israel. Ben-Yacov himself was the Israeli ambassador to Nigeria until that country
broke relations Oct. 25.
Ben-Yacov would not disclose the source for his information either to The •Chronicle or to the more than one hundred persons attending the service at the Jewish Center, in memory of
the Israeli soldiers who died in the Yom Kippur war and the athletes killed during the Munich Olympics in 1972.
"Most African nations who have broken relations with Israel — perhaps with the exception of Uganda — have
done so against their better belief and conviction," he said.
Ben-Yacov explained the break in relations is especially surprising because of the amount of
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 13)
Geneva Is A Symbol Of Cooperation
Editor* Not*: BecauseTlf^he awkward deadlines that a wtekly publication like tti* Chronlcl* must meet, w» hav* found It very difficult to bring you up- to-dat* n*w> coverage olWha Geneva P«ac* Conference. Dally newspapers and the TV and radio media ar* covering the newt from Geneva dally. We will try to provide Interesting
Local Leader Elected To JDC Board Of Directors In N.Y.
One of Columbus' Jewish leaders, George M. Levine, was elected to the Board of Directors ' of the Joint: Distribution Committee, it was announced by Edward Ginsberg, - JDC Chairman. The election took place at the 59th Annual Meeting on Thursday, December 6,1973, at the New York Hilton Hotel.
Another local communal leader whose term did not expire and who is therefore still serving on the Board of Directors is Herbert H. Schiff.
Edward Ginsberg of Cleveland was re-elected Chairman of the JDC for a second term. Jack D. Weiler of New York, was re-elected
background Information, when available, such as news analysis, commentary etc. The following It an interesting article on the history of Geneva as a site for ma|or peace conferences.
by Edwin Eytan
JTA European
Bureau Chief
GENEVA (JTA) — Geneva, tne site of the Arab- , Israeli peace conference, is not only a geographic location but also the symbol of "a spirit" and a certain old-fashioned form- of in¬ ternational cooperation. It has also marked a number of resounding international
failures such as the ill-fated League of Nations, the In¬ dochina .peace conference and the summit meetings. It first entered modern history in Nov. 1917 when President Woodrow Wilson told Swiss statesman William Rappard that the world should set up an *=Fii%ernational organization, the League of Nations, and locate it in Geneva "to try and imitate the concept of mutual friendship and cooperation shown by the Swiss, French, Germans and Italians who together^ built a state."
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 7)
Schottensteins To Participate In Israel Bond Conference 7 Convened By Prime Minister
GEORGE M. LEVINE
Chairman of the JDC National Council and Judge Nochem S. Winnet of Philadelphia, was re-elected
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 131
ISRAEL BACKGROUND REPORT
Israel And The American Public
by J. Maynard Kaplan
Editors note: Mr. Kaplan, chairman of the Community Relations Com¬ mittee of the Columbus Jewish Federation, delivered the following analysis of the problems of Israel today, at the community Memorial - Service at the Jewish Center on Dec. Mi
' Consider Yom Kippur
.1973. The Israelis, unwary and unprepared for the Arab attack, are at worship in the synagogues on this holiest of days. The Arabs, armed to the teeth by the Russians, with special equipment for this special type of assault, and with replacement
.material already arriving by sea, a journey of 2 to 3 weeks, the Russians already having discreetly withdrawn their civilians, the Arabs now launch an attack
. simultaneously on two frontiers, hundreds of miles apart. This used to be known
lejtSV
as blatant, premeditated aggression. But some newspapers in this country, among them the Christian Science Monitor and the Minneapolis Tribune, are saying that this was not aggression.
Consider the cease-fire in 1967. The last shot has hardly echoed away when Israel is inviting the Arabs to sit down at the table and talk peace. For six years, the Israelis invite and wait. And the only Arab response is No Peace, No Negotiations, No Recognition. This used to be known as intransigency. But there are many newspapers here which said it was the Israelis who were in¬ transigent.
Now, let's call a spade, a spade. When we celebrate
oil lasted eight days, in the light of what we know today, that was a very minor miracle.
Because, under the in¬ fluence of today's oil sup¬ plies, governments tremble, leaders become lackeys, lies become truths and facts, become fictions.
It is because of the dangers inherent in this sickness, that the im¬ plications of what we have heard here tonight are of grave concern, slot only to Israel, but also w all of us here in this country.
Particularly are we ap¬ prehensive because Israel relies heavily on public opinion here and it is ap¬ parent that there, are -many in this country who/because they" are weary of war,
the 2100 year old miracle of- Watergate and Wall St., the Temple when one day's, have lost sight of the facts
and are falling prey to the Big Lie and the propaganda.
For example, there is great danger that there are millions of Americans who don't want to face up to the truth, who would be willing to settle for peace at any price and who are willing to allow themselves to be taken in by a phony detente with the Russians, perhaps bringing ultimate disaster to the United States.
For history will record that that is what the Middle East is all about. For years, Israel has been\standing'in for the United States in an undeclared war with the Soviet Union.
Nothing has changed in the Soviet design of things: to penetrate the Middle East, the Suez, dominate the Persian Gulf and the Indian
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 15)
Harold and Regine Schottenstein will leave for Israel on Saturday evening, January 26 to take part in an extraordinary International Israel Bond Conference convened by Prime Minister Golda Meir and Finance Minister Pinchas Sapir.
The Schottenstein's will join more than 500 delegates /from the United States,' CanadaL Western Europe, and other parts of the free world to study Israel's critical economic needs in the wake of the Yom Kippur
War of 1973. They are also expected to inaugurate an unprecedented worldwide effort to help the people of Israel to restore their war- dislocated economy and to go forward with a large scale development program as the, foundation for a sound economic future, according to Sam Rothberg, General Chairman-of the'Israel Bond Organization.
Mr. Schottenstein is a former Columbus Israel Bond Chairman and has
/
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 4)
Labor Party Running Scared As Israeli Election Approaches
by Yitzhak ShargU JTA Tel Aviv Correspondent
TEL AVIV (JTA) - With election day approaching, Israel's ruling Labor Party is running scared, despite the latest public opinion poll predicting an overwhelming victory for the Labor lists. Labor is aiming its big guns at the Likud non-Labor alignment which it is trying to brand as the party of war. Premier Golda Meir's Labor Alignment is presenting itself to the voters as the
party of peace, an image enhanced by the successful opening of the first Arab- Israeli peace talks in 25 years at Geneva two weeks ago. Labor, on the eve of elections, has unveiled a new ' pla tform which, while standing firm on the need for defensible borders, is more doveish than.the previous platform on the question of territorial compromise. It is also promising new and younger faces in the next government and Knesset. The poll, conducted by the
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 11)
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